Top Lead Legal Advisers Ranked by Deal Value
February 14, 2014, 7:09 p.m. EST 1 Min Read
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Top Lead Legal Advisers Ranked by Deal Value
Top Lead Legal Advisers Ranked by Deal ValuePrimary advisers in domestic bank and thrift merger deals in 2013. Dollars in millions | ||||
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2013 Rank | 2012 Rank | Firm | Deals | Deal value |
1 | 2 | Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz | 5 | $5,116.7 |
2 | 1 | Sullivan & Cromwell LLP | 6 | 3,918.5 |
3 | 4 | Kirkland & Ellis LLP | 2 | 2,002.2 |
4 | 13 | Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP* | 2 | 1,995.1 |
5 | 11 | Hunton & Williams LLP* | 19 | 1,287.8 |
6 | 7 | Bracewell & Giuliani LLP* | 11 | 1,272.9 |
7 | 69 | Silver Freedman & Taff L.LP* | 7 | 1,244.5 |
8 | 55 | Troutman Sanders LLP | 3 | 940.1 |
9 | NR | Avila Rodriguez Hernandez Mena & Ferri LLP | 1 | 881.0 |
NR | Carey y Cía | 1 | 881.0 | |
8 | Jones Day | 1 | 881.0 | |
12 | 18 | Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP* | 7 | 848.2 |
13 | 40 | Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP* | 8 | 732.4 |
14 | 93 | Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP | 9 | 621.0 |
15 | 66 | LeClairRyan | 2 | 497.7 |
16 | 66 | Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love LLP | 1 | 494.7 |
17 | 26 | Haynie Rake & Repass P.C.* | 5 | 450.7 |
18 | 137 | Mitchell Williams Selig Gates & Woodyard PLLC | 3 | 425.2 |
19 | 94 | Hinckley Allen & Snyder LLP | 2 | 375.8 |
20 | 92 | Breyer & Associates PC | 4 | 352.2 |
21 | 21 | Fenimore Kay Harrison & Ford LLP* | 14 | 329.7 |
22 | NR | Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP | 2 | 329.0 |
23 | NR | Dover Dixon Horne PLLC | 5 | 311.9 |
24 | 10 | Luse Gorman Pomerenk & Schick P.C.* | 11 | 286.0 |
25 | 31 | Lane Powell P.C. | 2 | 274.9 |
26 | 108 | Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf LLP | 5 | 253.2 |
27 | 5 | Norton Rose Fulbright LLP | 1 | 243.9 |
28 | 32 | Smith Mackinnon PA* | 6 | 229.7 |
29 | NR | Atkins Hollmann Jones Peacock Lewis & Lyon Inc. | 1 | 220.0 |
30 | 79 | Kutak Rock LLP | 3 | 210.4 |
31 | 56 | Reed Smith LLP | 2 | 187.3 |
32 | 42 | King Holmes Paterno & Berliner LLP* | 4 | 161.5 |
33 | NR | Phelps Dunbar LLP | 3 | 160.2 |
34 | NR | Bybel Rutledge LLP* | 2 | 155.9 |
NR | Pepper Hamilton LLP | 1 | 155.9 | |
36 | NR | Varnum LLP | 1 | 154.5 |
NR | Warner Norcross & Judd LLP | 1 | 154.5 | |
38 | 111 | Vedder Price P.C.* | 5 | 154.2 |
39 | 45 | Jones Walker Waechter Poitevent Carrère & Denègre LLP.* | 6 | 147.3 |
40 | 53 | Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP* | 10 | 133.3 |
41 | 71 | Bingham McCutchen LLP* | 4 | 132.9 |
42 | 60 | Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP* | 5 | 123.7 |
43 | 50 | DLA Piper LLP (US)* | 3 | 122.3 |
44 | NR | Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP | 1 | 114.7 |
45 | 62 | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP* | 5 | 112.8 |
46 | NR | Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP | 3 | 111.1 |
47 | NR | Barrett & McNagny LLP | 1 | 108.0 |
36 | Krieg DeVault LLP* | 2 | 108.0 | |
49 | 24 | Patton Boggs LLP | 3 | 104.7 |
50 | 47 | Shutts & Bowen LLP* | 3 | 104.2 |
51 | NR | Gunster Yoakley & Stewart PA | 3 | 101.5 |
52 | 15 | Graham & Dunn PC | 3 | 95.2 |
53 | NR | Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey & Leonard LLP | 3 | 92.6 |
54 | 87 | Bryan Cave LLP* | 7 | 90.8 |
55 | 73 | Larry E. Temple* | 6 | 83.6 |
56 | NR | Thompson & Knight LLP* | 2 | 76.8 |
57 | NR | Lowenstein Sandler PC | 1 | 65.7 |
58 | 107 | Gerrish McCreary Smith PC | 1 | 64.8 |
59 | NR | McAfee & Taft* | 5 | 63.8 |
60 | 34 | Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP* | 4 | 61.7 |
61 | 81 | Dorsey & Whitney LLP* | 2 | 61.5 |
62 | 33 | Barnes & Thornburg LLP | 3 | 59.8 |
63 | NR | Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP | 1 | 57.5 |
64 | NR | Proskauer Rose LLP | 1 | 56.0 |
65 | 19 | Hogan Lovells US LLP | 2 | 54.9 |
66 | NR | Venable LLP | 2 | 54.0 |
67 | NR | Quattlebaum Grooms Tull & Burrow PLLC | 1 | 53.6 |
NR | Williams & Anderson | 1 | 53.6 | |
69 | 127 | BuckleySandler LLP | 1 | 53.2 |
70 | NR | Keller Rohrback LLP | 2 | 52.4 |
71 | NR | Davis Wright Tremaine LLP* | 4 | 51.7 |
72 | NR | Richard E. Knecht | 2 | 51.5 |
73 | NR | Andrews Kurth LLP | 3 | 51.3 |
74 | 127 | Elias Matz Tiernan & Herrick L.LP | 2 | 50.2 |
75 | NR | Fairfield and Woods PC | 2 | 46.6 |
76 | 72 | Dinsmore & Shohl LLP | 2 | 41.3 |
77 | NR | Husch Blackwell LLP | 1 | 40.6 |
78 | 70 | Schiff Hardin LLP | 1 | 38.5 |
79 | 54 | Choate Hall & Stewart LLP | 1 | 37.4 |
80 | NR | Day Pitney LLP | 2 | 35.0 |
81 | 41 | Alston & Bird LLP* | 3 | 34.2 |
82 | 102 | Stuart Moore | 1 | 32.5 |
83 | 39 | Williams Mullen | 2 | 31.9 |
84 | 68 | McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP | 1 | 31.1 |
85 | 86 | Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP | 2 | 29.1 |
86 | NR | Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP | 1 | 26.7 |
87 | NR | Cranmore FitzGerald & Meaney | 2 | 24.9 |
88 | NR | Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. | 1 | 24.4 |
89 | NR | Davis Brown Law Firm | 1 | 20.1 |
90 | NR | Foster Swift Collins & Smith P.C. | 1 | 18.6 |
91 | NR | Smith Anderson Blount Dorsett Mitchell & Jernigan LLP | 1 | 17.0 |
92 | NR | Rogers & Hardin LLP | 1 | 16.0 |
93 | NR | Ice Miller LLP | 1 | 15.4 |
93 | 101 | Mark Barnes Law PC* | 2 | 15.4 |
95 | NR | Martin Snow LLP | 1 | 15.0 |
96 | 132 | Cline Williams Wright Johnson & Oldfather L.LP* | 5 | 13.2 |
97 | 124 | Paul Foster Law Offices P.C.* | 4 | 13.0 |
98 | NR | McGrath North Mullin & Kratz P.C. | 1 | 12.3 |
98 | NR | Woods & Aitken LLP | 1 | 12.3 |
100 | NR | Baird Holm LLP* | 5 | 11.4 |
101 | 105 | Barley Snyder LLC | 1 | 10.1 |
NR | Rhoads & Sinon LLP | 1 | 10.1 | |
103 | 97 | Hilburn Calhoon Harper Pruniski & Calhoun Ltd. | 1 | 9.6 |
104 | NR | Foster Pepper PLLC | 1 | 8.4 |
105 | 49 | Bieging Shapiro & Barber LLP | 1 | 8.0 |
20 | Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates* | 2 | 8.0 | |
107 | 131 | Morris Laing Evans Brock & Kennedy Chtd.* | 2 | 7.6 |
108 | 125 | Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP | 2 | 7.3 |
109 | NR | Dan Karalis & Associates | 1 | 7.2 |
110 | 77 | Polsinelli Shughart PC | 1 | 6.4 |
111 | NR | Springer & Haseltine | 1 | 6.2 |
112 | NR | Keleher & McLeod PA | 1 | 5.9 |
NR | McAndrews Allen & Matson PC | 1 | 5.9 | |
114 | 80 | Frost Brown Todd LLC* | 2 | 5.8 |
91 | Stites & Harbison PLLC | 1 | 5.8 | |
116 | NR | Debevoise & Plimpton LLP | 1 | 5.4 |
117 | NR | Robinson & Cole LLP | 1 | 5.0 |
118 | NR | McCarter & English LLP | 1 | 4.8 |
119 | 3 | Arnold & Porter LLP | 1 | 4.6 |
120 | NR | Locke Lord LLP | 1 | 4.3 |
121 | NR | Friday Eldredge & Clark* | 2 | 3.9 |
122 | NR | Forshey Prostok LLP | 1 | 3.3 |
123 | NR | McMahon Surovik Suttle P.C. | 1 | 3.1 |
124 | NR | John Fleming Law | 1 | 2.3 |
125 | NR | Ward and Smith PA | 1 | 2.0 |
126 | NR | Schmiedeskamp Robertson Neu & Mitchell* | 2 | 1.1 |
*Deal value for at least one deal is not available. NR = not ranked; NA = not available. In-house advisers are included. Whole deals are included. Terminated deals are excluded. In the event advisers merge or an adviser is purchased by the parent of another adviser, SNL retroactively adjusts historic rankings to the single, highest-level adviser. If the buyer is already receiving credit for a particular deal, it will not receive additional credit following the merger.
Source:
SNL Financial
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